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James L. Reilly, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Email : jreilly@psych.uic.edu

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University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Psychiatry
Center for Cognitive Medicine (MC913)
912 S. Wood St. Ste. 235
Chicago IL 60612-7327 USA

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Dr. Reilly is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Cognitive Medicine. His research focuses on neurocognition in psychiatric diseases, with an aim to bridge the basic cognitive and clinical neurosciences in this research. He is presently a clinical investigator in the First Episode Psychosis Research Program which is headed by Dr. John Sweeney. Dr. Reilly’s most recent work has centered on the neurophysiology of abnormalities in spatial attention, spatial working memory, and response inhibition among treatment-naïve first-episode schizophrenia and how these abnormalities are impacted by atypical antipsychotic medication. This work aims to further the understanding of abnormalities in specific brain systems that underlie cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders so that better interventions can be developed to target these debilitating symptoms.

Dr. Reilly also provides clinical services in the Neuropsychology Service, which is part of the Department of Psychiatry’s Neurobehavior Program, and is directed by Dr. Neil Pliskin. In this service Dr. Reilly conducts comprehensive neuropsychological assessments of adult patients in whom impairments of cognitive or neuropsychiatric functioning are evident or suspected. More information about the Neuropsychology Service, including how to make a referral, can be found here.

Dr. Reilly earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia. He completed his clinical psychology internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he also completed a two-year post-doctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology.

Selected Publications:

Reilly JL, Harris MSH, Keshavan MS, Sweeney JA. Adverse effects of risperidone on spatial working memory in first episode schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, in press.

Sweeney JA, Harris MSH, Hill SJ, Keedy SK, Reilly JL. Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia, in Thaker, G & Carpenter, W (eds.), The Year in Schizophrenia, V1., Clinical Publishing, in press.

Harris MSH, Reilly JL, Keshavan MS, Sweeney JA. Longitudinal studies of antisaccades in antipsychotic-naïve first-episode schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 2006, 36, 485 – 494.

Reilly JL, Harris MSH, Keshavan MS, Sweeney JA. Abnormalities in visually guided saccades suggests corticofugal dysregulation in never treated schizophrenia, Biological Psychiatry, 2005, 54, 145-154.

Gottesman II & Reilly JL. Strengthening the evidence for genetic factors in schizophrenia (without abetting genetic discrimination), in Lenzenweger, MF & Hooley, JM (eds.), Principles of experimental psychopathology, American Psychological Association, 2003, pp. 31-44.

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